Flower Of The Week

This week’s flower is a somewhat unusual line flower
Liatris
Liatris goes by many names including; gayfeather, blazing star, button flower, snakeroot, and purple poker. It is almost always lavender, but on rare occasions it can be white. Liatris is a long slender flower that has clusters of spiky florets at the top twelve to eighteen inches of the stem. the stems can be anywhere from eighteen to thirty-six inches long. There is no known meaning of the flower Liatris.